Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Mediocre, at best. Slow and dragged on. Shorten it to 2 hours and it's golden. It's not, so it fails.

Michael Clayton - Amazing. Everything about it is awesome. However, it's VERY complex and mind bending. You have to think, so be prepared. I still feel like I'm missing key details of exactly what happened. Gotta see it again.

Across the Universe - Perfect is one word that comes to mind. It just works. And, contrary to many people I bet, the movie is best viewed sober. Trust me.

I don't know if it's been mentioned or not but I purchased "The Bank Job" a few weeks back on one of those 4 for $20 deals and it was terribly disappointing. It took me 3.5 hours to get through a 2 hour movie.

I don't know if it's been mentioned or not but I purchased "The Bank Job" a few weeks back on one of those 4 for $20 deals and it was terribly disappointing. It took me 3.5 hours to get through a 2 hour movie.

B.O.R.I.N.G.

And the accents were brutal for me.

My expectations were really low on this one with all of the recent heist type of flicks but I ended up enjoying it. I am really worn out of the random band of guys setting up a complex robbery at this point and unfortunately it is kind of souring me on some of the classics.

My expectations were really low on this one with all of the recent heist type of flicks but I ended up enjoying it. I am really worn out of the random band of guys setting up a complex robbery at this point and unfortunately it is kind of souring me on some of the classics.

I was expecting action and intrigue like "The Italian Job" or the Danny Ocean series or Snatch or movies in a similar vein.

But a story about Princess Caroline being a sex freak that perpetuates itself into the reason for the bank heist in 1971 was futile to me.

Add to that, a lame soundtrack and score and no chemistry between Statham and anyone else, especially Saffron Burrows (or his wife).

How Tilda Swinson won an Oscar for 10 minutes of predictability is beyond me.

Well, actually not (voter pandering, gifts and so on) but what a joke.

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Originally Posted by Miles

It was heavily character/acting driven. I really enjoyed it but didn't think that it quite lived up to the hype. The last 15 minutes or so had some very badass exchanges.

My opinion is you're both right. On the page, MC is a formuliac and predictible straightforward movie. The acting performances make the story resonate and stick with you. And Tilda's performance was the kind of stuff Oscar voters live for.